soulRocks » roughtrade http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live soulROCKS is a collective of music lovers, fashionistas and musicians who share and express their passion for music love via mix tapes, blogs, events and any other existing creative outlet they can get their minds on. Sat, 04 Feb 2017 14:08:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 The Strokes http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live/music/artists/the-strokes/ http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live/music/artists/the-strokes/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:46:20 +0000 http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live/?p=479
...read more on “The Strokes”]]> The Strokes f1 The StrokesEqually inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs of fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground, the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype — particularly from the U.K. music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their fervor for Oasis in the early ’90s. Barely in their twenties by the time their debut album, Is This It, arrived in 2001, singer/songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti‘s success wasn’t quite of the overnight variety, but it still arrived pretty swiftly.

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